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Better Character Language Modeling Through Morphology (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: A character-by-character word predictor is also trained to break words into meaningful parts, like roots and endings. That extra practice lowered its prediction error across 24 languages, helping most on words with many endings.

Abstract

We incorporate morphological supervision into character language models (CLMs) via multitasking and show that this addition improves bits-per-character (BPC) performance across 24 languages, even when the morphology data and language modeling data are disjoint. Analyzing the CLMs shows that inflected words benefit more from explicitly modeling morphology than uninflected words, and that morphological supervision improves performance even as the amount of language modeling data grows. We then transfer morphological supervision across languages to improve language modeling performance in the low-resource setting.

Terra Blevins, Luke Zettlemoyer
arXiv:1906.01037 · cs.CL · submitted Jun 3, 2019 · updated Jun 12, 2019
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted to ACL 2019

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